Illuminari Live Speakers
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Adam Morgan
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Adam Morgan is the Founding Partner of eatbigfish, the leading global authority on Challenger Brand Strategy. A sought after keynote speaker, he is the author of several influential marketing works on challenger strategy, culture and innovation, including Eating the Big Fish, The Pirate Inside, and A Beautiful Constraint. He and his company help client teams to unlock growth by understanding what it means to bring a challenger mindset to their key business challenges.
He is the originator of the ongoing Cost of Dull Project, with Peter Field, Jon Evans and Dr Karen Nelson-Field.
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Abigail Dixon
Abby Dixon, known as The Whole Marketer, helps ambitious brands grow with clarity, integrity, and impact. Blending strategy, psychology, and lived experience, she empowers leaders to align marketing with purpose. A dynamic, relatable speaker, Abby inspires audiences to think bigger, act braver, and market more humanly at events worldwide.
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Alexander Robertson
Alexander Robertson is a senior marketing and brand leader working at the intersection of luxury, culture, and commercial growth. As Vice President of Global Brand, Marketing, and Digital at Jumeirah, he has driven global brand transformations, technology acceleration, and the integration of marketing, media, and loyalty into high-performing centres of excellence. His career spans luxury goods, aviation, destinations, and hospitality, with extensive C-Suite and board-level experience shaping long-term brand strategy.
As a keynote speaker, Alexander brings a future-forward perspective on marketing strategy, behavioural influence, and the evolving role of brands in a technology-driven world. His talks explore the balance between creativity and rigour, emotion and data, brand and performance — using luxury as a lens for understanding trust, value, and decision-making. He speaks to leaders who want brands that are relevant today and resilient tomorrow.
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Alison Van Der Lande
Alison Vander Lande is the founder and creative force behind her eponymous luxury accessories brand, blending PR, marketing expertise, and design to build internationally-stocked collections since 2004. A confident storyteller and seasoned entrepreneur, Alison inspires audiences with her insights on brand building, creativity, and leadership in business.
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Charlotte Pearce
Charlotte Pearce is Founder and CEO of Inkpact and Founder of the CRM Leaders’ Club. A Forbes 30 Under 30 technologist, she champions human-centred innovation, helping global brands scale with authentic connection. An internationally sought-after keynote speaker, Charlotte inspires audiences on entrepreneurship, technology, and building impactful, purpose-driven businesses.
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Craig Inglis
Craig Inglis is a marketing leader and brand strategist, former Chief Customer Officer at John Lewis and Chairman of The Marketing Society. He has led some of the UK’s most iconic campaigns, blending creativity with commercial impact, and champions purpose-driven brands, exceptional customer experience and long-term loyalty and growth.
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Dan Pope
Dan Pope is the Founder and Host of HUNGRY., a podcast spotlighting the people shaping food and drink. Over five years, he’s led 300+ conversations with founders, chefs, operators, VCs and CMOs—uncovering the lessons others keep private. His mission: pour gas on growth for brands that deserve to win.
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Daryl Fielding
Daryl Fielding is a veteran marketing strategist with 30+ years of experience, best known for architecting Dove's "Campaign for Real Beauty." She has worked with Cadbury, Ford, and Vodafone, co-founded The Marketing Academy Foundation, and authored The Brand Book (2023). She now speaks and consults internationally on brand strategy, leadership, and business growth.
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David Hicks
David Hicks is a globally recognised customer engagement and experience leader with over 30 years’ experience advising boards and senior executives. Founder of Mulberry Consulting and TribeCX, and Co-Founder & Chairman of XM Coach, he helps organisations operationalise brand promise and translate technology investment into measurable performance, loyalty, and growth.
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Dr Karen Nelson-Field
Dr. Karen Nelson-Field, CEO of Amplified Intelligence, is a great speaker because her research is redefining media measurement, shifting focus from impressions to human attention(active and passive). Her influential work on attention elasticity and asset fluency is presented on global stages like Cannes Lions, providing brands with an evidence-based path to effective, modern media strategy.
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Elfried Samba
Elfried Samba is an entrepreneur and marketing leader, best known as the former Global Head of Marketing at Gymshark and Co-Founder of Butter. He is also Co-Host of the Bottleneck podcast. Elfried builds culturally relevant brands and high-performance teams, driving rapid, community-led growth through creativity and digital innovation.
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Emily Trenouth
Emily Trenouth is a strategic consultant, creator economy specialist, and speaker with over a decade’s experience shaping influencer marketing, social strategy, and brand partnerships for global companies like Amazon and MediaCom. She now runs her own consultancy, inspiring audiences with insights on influence, digital storytelling, and future-focused marketing.
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Emma de la Fosse
Emma de la Fosse is Chief Creative Officer at Edelman UK, known for two decades of award-winning, strategically creative work that drives business results and societal impact. Her background at Ogilvy and focus on using creativity to change behavior and build brands makes her ideal for tackling complex brand challenges.
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Emma Harris
Emma Harris is Founder and CEO of Glow London and creator of Slow the F**k Down. Following a life-changing cardiac arrest, she now blends senior marketing experience with mindset and behavioural insight to help leaders create sustainable success.
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Holly Tucker
Holly Tucker MBE is a visionary entrepreneur, founder of Holly & Co and co-founder of Notonthehighstreet.com, championing independent makers and small businesses across the UK. An award-winning business leader, author and media personality, she also fronts ITV’s Be Your Own Boss, inspiring audiences with practical insight, creativity and purpose-driven entrepreneurship.
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Jim Olson
Jim Olson is a globally trusted communications leader and storyteller who has spent three decades helping organizations find courage and meaning in the moments that test them most. Drawing on crisis‑forged experience with iconic brands — including Starbucks and United Airlines — he inspires audiences to transform their own setback stories into comeback legacies — a message at the heart of his forthcoming book Tailwind.
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Jo Howes
Jo Howes is a leadership expert and executive coach who helps ambitious founders and teams unlock clarity, confidence and high performance. Known for her direct yet compassionate approach, Jo partners with fast-growth businesses to strengthen culture, sharpen decision-making and build resilient leaders ready to scale impact.
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John Sils
John Sills is author of The Human Experience, named Leadership Book of the Year, and Managing Partner at The Foundation, a customer-led growth consultancy. With 25 years’ experience advising brands like HSBC, bp and Volkswagen, he helps leaders turn human insight into commercial success through engaging, provocative and practical keynotes.
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Jon Evans
Jon Evans is host of The Uncensored CMO, one of the UK’s most influential marketing podcasts, and a leading voice on marketing effectiveness. As CCO at System1 and former CMO of BrewDog, Jon bridges evidence-led thinking with frontline brand-building experience. He is known for challenging short-termism and championing creativity that drives commercial growth. -
Lauren Spearman
Lauren Spearman is a seasoned marketing professional with 17+ years’ experience spanning TV sponsorship at Sky, digital marketing, and brand-side social and influencer strategy at Benefit Cosmetics and MADE.com. Now a consultant to lifestyle brands, she delivers social and brand strategy, creative direction, and champions pay transparency on TikTok and LinkedIn.
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Lee Bofkin
Dr Lee Bofkin is co-founder and CEO of Global Street Art, Europe’s largest hand-painted advertising and mural organisation, transforming cities through vibrant public art and the London Mural Festival. With a PhD from Cambridge and a background in dance, he inspires audiences on creativity, innovation and the power of visual storytelling.
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Les Binet
Les Binet is one of the world’s leading experts on marketing effectiveness and long-term growth. As co-author of The Long and the Short of It and former Head of Effectiveness at adam&eveDDB, Les has fundamentally reshaped how marketers think about brand building, creativity and commercial impact. His work combines rigorous econometrics with deep practical insight.
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Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, CEO, author, and expert in leadership and organisational culture, known for her work on adapting to uncertainty and fostering productive disagreement. Educated at Cambridge, she previously led three US tech businesses and was a BBC producer. The author of seven influential books, including Wilful Blindness and Uncharted, her renowned TED Talks have amassed over 17 million views. She advises global companies like Google and IBM.
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Marina Monsour
Marina Monsour is a dynamic leader at Kyra, where she drives brand strategy and creator partnerships at the intersection of culture and technology. With a sharp eye for storytelling and growth, she builds impactful campaigns, scales communities, and champions innovative collaborations that shape the future of influencer marketing worldwide brands
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Mark McCulloch
Mark McCulloch MBE is one of the UK's most respected voices in hospitality brand and marketing. Founder and CEO of Supersonic Inc, he has spent 25 years helping build, transform, and promote some of Britain's best-known restaurant and leisure brands including Pret A Manger, YO!, Dishoom, Rosa's Thai, Prezzo Italian, and Costa Coffee. His Hospitality Rising campaign helped generate over 300,000 job applications, supporting the industry through its most significant recruitment crisis. Awarded his MBE in the King's New Year Honours for outstanding contribution to marketing and the hospitality sector, Mark is a passionate advocate for the industry he has served throughout his career. As a keynote speaker, he brings a warm, direct style — combining expert insight with sharp anecdotes making complex ideas around brand, culture, and people genuinely accessible and actionable for any audience.
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Mark Denton
Mark Denton is Founder and Creative Director of COY! Communications and one of the UK’s most original creative figures. With over four decades in commercial art, he is known for humour, craft and cultural sharpness. On stage, Mark is part adland legend, part creative provocateur.
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Max Osbourne
Max Osborne is Founder and CEO of ThisThat, a brand measurement company helping organisations govern influence at scale. He believes marketing has entered the community era, where influence drives growth. Backed by leading VCs and unicorn founders, Max works with global brands to turn influence into measurable, accountable brand performance.
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Mimi Nicklin
Mimi Nicklin is a globally recognised empathy advocate, bestselling author, and founder of Empathy Everywhere. Rated the #1 Emotional Intelligence Keynote Speaker in the USA for 2026, she is one of the world's most influential voices on human connection, listening-led leadership, and psychological safety in the workplace. Her flagship keynote, The Empathy Algorithm: Why Listening Is the Intelligence AI Can't Replace, consistently achieves 98% excellence scores and has been delivered to audiences at organisations including Emirates, Capgemini, Coca-Cola, and Philips. She has shared stages with Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and appeared live on BBC to 85 million people. A three-time published author, Mimi's work reframes empathy as a core leadership capability — essential to performance, retention, and organisational health in an increasingly disconnected world.
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Nishma Patel Robb
Nishma Patel Robb is Founder of Glittersphere, former Senior Director of Brand & Reputation at Google UK, and a powerful advocate for Authentic Intelligence. A Fellow of the IPA and Marketing Society, she speaks on brand trust, leadership and visibility.
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Orlando Wood
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Orlando Wood is a leading authority on creative effectiveness and the Chief Innovation Officer at System1. The author of Lemon, Look Out, and Hold Me Tight, he focuses on right-brain thinking, attention, and the emotional impact of advertising. His speaking style is highly visual, engaging, and uses humor and cultural analysis to offer a practical, original perspective on how to create advertising that moves people and grows brands.
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Peter Field
Widely known as the "Godfather of Marketing Effectiveness," Peter Field is one of the most influential voices in modern marketing. His evidence-based work — including The Long and the Short of It, Effectiveness in Context, and decades of IPA Databank, analysis has changed how CMOs, brands, and agencies understand growth. Peter’s work provides the industry’s most reliable roadmap to long-term brand building, creative effectiveness, and commercial impact.
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Pete Markey
Pete Markey is a senior marketing leader and former Chief Marketing Officer at Boots, with previous roles at TSB, Aviva and the Post Office. Known for combining brand-building creativity with commercial rigour, he drives customer-led growth, transformation and high-performing teams across some of the UK’s most recognised brands.
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Richard Shotton
Richard Shotton is a leading behavioural science expert, author, speaker, and consultant. With over two decades of industry experience, he specialises in the psychological factors influencing consumer decisions and founded the consultancy Astroten. He is the best-selling author of The Choice Factoryand The Illusion of Choice. He is a high-demand keynote speaker for global brands including Google, Meta, and Barclays. -
Rory Sutherland
Rory spent his career at Ogilvy UK's creative side, developing a deep fascination with human decision-making and behavioural science. He founded Ogilvy's Behavioural Science Practice, wrote Alchemy (2019), and co-wrote Transport for Humans. A TED speaker, IPA President, and Spectator technology correspondent, he also runs a CPD-accredited MAD//Masters course for marketers as well as co-hosting the Bottleneck Podcast. -
Sarah Carter
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One of the UK's most respected strategists and Mark Ritson's 'favourite advertising thinker of all time.' Co-author of How Not To Plan and long-time Global Planning Partner at adam&eve\TBWA, Sarah bridges rigorous evidence with emotionally rich, culturally resonant creativity. A practitioner, not just a pundit — she challenges orthodoxy, champions long-term brand building, and is widely regarded as the 'planner's planner.'
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Steve Keller
Steve Keller is Sonic Strategy Director at Studio Resonate, SiriusXM Media’s audio-first consultancy, and a globally recognised expert in sonic branding. Blending art and science, he helps brands shape perception through sound. A prolific researcher, speaker and award-winner, Steve brings over 30 years’ music industry experience
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Tom Goodwin
Tom Goodwin is a global keynote speaker, author and former Head of Innovation at Zenith. Named one of the most influential voices in marketing by Adweek, Tom explores the intersection of technology, business and human behaviour, challenging hype and lazy thinking around digital transformation and AI.
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Tom Ridges
Tom Ridges is Founder & CEO of Herdify, a behavioural-science platform helping brands and charities grow through real-world word-of-mouth. With 20 years’ experience spanning startups to Microsoft, he combines data, network theory and AI to uncover offline influence, delivering compelling talks on herd mentality and how decisions truly spread.
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Tom Roach
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Tom Roach is one of the UK’s most respected strategists and VP Brand Strategy at Jellyfish, With senior roles at adam&eveDDB/ TBWA and BBH, he is renowned for combining creative excellence with evidence-based effectiveness thinking. Tom speaks with rare credibility on how brands grow through both creativity and rigour.
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Vicki Maguire
Vicki Maguire is a world-class creative leader and industry trailblazer, formerly Chief Creative Officer at Havas London. She’s led award-winning work, won Campaign’s Creative Leader of the Year, served as Cannes Lions Jury President, and champions diversity and inclusion in advertising. Her outspoken voice shapes modern creative culture.
The founding collective spans some of the most distinctive voices in the industry, such as Rory Sutherland, Margaret Heffernan, Emma de la Fosse, Nishma Robb Patel, Les Binet, Peter Field, Adam Morgan, Tom Goodwin, Jo Howes, Lauren Spearman, Elfried Samba, Emma Harris, Jim Olson, Mark Denton and many more. Different disciplines. Different backgrounds. Deliberately built for cognitive diversity, not just credibility.
Unified by one belief: that the industry needs better questions, not more of the same answers.